CHART News

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4/17/2015 6:09 AM

UNO-CHART is an applied social science hazards research center at The University of New Orleans that collaborates with Louisiana communities including the City of New Orleans and its surrounding parishes. This blog details CHART's activities.

Dr. Monica Farris and Tara Lambeth participated in the InTeGrateCoastal Hazards, Risk and Environmental Justice Workshop at Tulane University May 20-22, 2015. The workshop provided a place for interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration around coastal hazards. Dr. Farris was one of the workshop conveners, and facilitated the panel introducing online courses, modules and implementation projects around interdisciplinary approaches to coastal hazards, risk and environmental justice. Dinah Maygarden from UNO's Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences (PIES) presented on a coastal hazards module developed by PIES in collaboration with other universities.

CHART’s Risk Literacy project became a finalist in the Solution Search Reducing Our Risk contest. The winner of the contest will be chosen based on votes on the Solution Search website. You can vote for CHART using this link: http://www.solutionsearch.org/contest/reducing-our-risk. Voting closes May 15th.

CHART Director Dr. Monica Farris participated in a United Nations "Making Cities Resilient" Campaign which facilitated knowledge exchange on resilience between experts in New Orleans and Gothenburg. In the campaign, New Orleans experts first presented ideas to the Swedish delegation in New Orleans, and then visited Gothenburg, where the Swedish experts presented ideas to the New Orleans delegation. Dr. Farris presented on the various CHART projects that contribute to the resilience of the New Orleans region. The Making Cities Resilient website describes the project in more detail, and Dr. Farris' presentation can be found under day three of the New Orleans visit.

The University of New Orleans will be holding Katrina @10 events from February through April 2015. These events will explore the state of the city ten years after the storm. These events are collaborations among Planning and Urban Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Public Administration, CHART and UNOTI. All events are free and open to the public.